Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas end relationship with General Counsel Roberto L. Rodriguez

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017

According to reliable sources, the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas (KTTT) have ended their relationship with former General Counsel Roberto L. Rodriguez during the past week for unknown reasons, stunning the Eagle Pass and Maverick County community.

Rodriguez served as Associate General Counsel with the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas for several years before being elevated to General Counsel upon the KTTT Tribal Council’s termination of long-term General Counsel Gloria E. Hernandez on September 11, 2015.  Rodriguez was subsequently named General Counsel by the KTTT Tribal Council in late-2015 and had been serving in that capacity until last week, according to reliable sources.

Rodriguez previously owned and operated the Law Offices of Roberto L. Rodriguez in Eagle Pass.  He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Houston Law Center.  He is also a graduate of Eagle Pass High School.

Attempts by the Eagle Pass Business Journal to reach the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas and Roberto L. Rodriguez to comment on the parties’ separation were unsuccessful.

As of press time, the reason for the parties’ separation as well as who is the new General Counsel representing the federally-recognized Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas and are unknown, and whether Rodriguez will reopen his law office in Eagle Pass or Austin, Texas where he and his family now reside is also unknown.

The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas is a federally-recognized Native American tribe since 1973 and owns and operates the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino and other enterprises in Maverick County, Texas, including its official sovereign nation reservation on the banks of the Rio Grande River along the United States-Mexico border.